“Children belong in schools and on playgrounds, not in detention centers,” their open letter states An impressive list of entertainers, physicians, educators, and advocacy organizations are among the notable figures to have joined forces to issue an open letter demanding the “immediate” closure of Texas’ Dilley Immigration Processing Center,...
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“The brutality will not stop as long as Miller/Trump continue their mass deportation fever dream” We noted last month that much-hyped personnel changes that included the firing of now-former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem were nothing more than a public relations stunt and that as long as de-facto President Stephen...
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“I am grateful to the court for recognizing that what happened to me was wrong and for bringing me home,” said Maria de Jesus Estrada Juárez. “But no one should have to go through this” DACA recipient Maria de Jesus Estrada Juárez – the California mom who was wrongly...
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The fight around birthright citizenship was at the Supreme Court, where justices on Wednesday heard arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the case around the Trump administration’s blatantly un-American effort to terminate this constitutional right – a protection explicitly guaranteed in the 14th Amendment – through an executive order. Inside...
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This is a guest post by David Leopold, America’s Voice Legal Advisor and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The debate over birthright citizenship is no longer a theoretical exercise confined to campaign trail rhetoric. What was once a fringe proposal championed by restrictionists in Congress has...
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“Why are we allowing ICE agents to terrorize our neighbors and traumatize our children?” asked one advocate. “Why are we watching as laws are broken in broad daylight?” During a Congressional shadow hearing last week, the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security, and Enforcement said...
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“I’m here because of the incredible amount of cruelty that’s going on in the world,” said one rally attendee Record-breaking “No Kings” events across every single U.S. state and territory this past weekend continued to voice fierce opposition to the Trump administration’s attacks on constitutional freedoms, paychecking-busting policies, and...
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Congressional Hispanic Caucus leaders: “As long as Stephen Miller is in control, there is no ‘kinder, gentler’ DHS” When it comes to government dysfunction and flushing taxpayer dollars down the toilet, no one does it better (or worse?) than the Trump administration. Case in point: rather than just paying...
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Students are facing suspension and other disciplinary actions for standing up for their peers, communities, and rights Thousands of high school students across dozens of states have been standing up for their classmates, communities, and values by walking out of their classrooms in protest of the federal government’s mass...
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Neither of them should have been detained in the first place A pair of current and former students who were abducted by mass deportation agents in separate incidents at the start of the Trump administration and had remained detained since have finally won their freedom, including a high school...
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